The Season Pass content for Destiny 2 will go live on December 4 in Destiny 2. But what can we expect in the Black Armory? We analyze the teaser image.
New fodder for the Guardians: The Black Armory will open its doors in time for the weekly reset on December 4, as can now be read on the Blizzard Shop website. But what awaits the Guardians behind the doors of the ominous Armory?
Little is known about the specific contents so far. However, a teaser released simultaneously with the announcement encourages speculation.
What does the teaser reveal about the upcoming expansion? The image obviously shows an Exo holding an unusual weapon. The Exo does not appear to be in the best condition. It looks battered.
Furthermore, the following points stand out:
- The symbols in the background and on the Exo’s chest likely symbolize the Black Armory
- The Exo is holding a weapon in its hand, whose striking paint job strongly resembles a sword and also looks quite worn
- The symbols on the weapon are interesting. They resemble the fish symbols from the Last Wish raid
What does this all mean?
Is the Exo a “Gunsmith”?
Apparently there is not just Banshee-44: The omnipresent gunsmith Banshee-44 has been working on the same auto rifle in the Tower for over a year. However, he is not the only gunsmith in the Destiny world.
There is another gunsmith named Gaunt. According to the lore, he is an Exo, a gunsmith himself, and one of the creators of the legendary fusion rifle 77 Wizard from Destiny 1.
The Guardians will have to enter an Armory in the new expansion. What could be more fitting than a new vendor appearing in his original role as a gunsmith?
However, it is unclear why the colleague looks so battered. Perhaps his injuries are related to the weapon he holds in his hands.
Is the weapon a new weapon class?
Here is where the “sword weapon” was first seen: The monstrous rifle from the teaser appeared in a Bungie ViDoc before the Forsaken launch. We have marked the exact spot in the following video:
What kind of weapon are we seeing? There is intense speculation about it in the forums. While some see the weapon as the first Railgun in Destiny 2, as suggested by the labels on some images in the video footage, others are convinced it is a sniper rifle.
Ominous are also the symbols on the weapon. Since the fish symbol appears in the Last Wish raid, the weapon could be a reward from the new raid wing, about which nothing is known yet.
The likelihood is high that the sword weapon will be of exotic rarity and likely obtainable in a similar way to the exotic fusion rifle 1000 Voices.
If this theory proves to be true, the Black Armory should be closely related to the raid wing. Other theories, however, see the fish as a symbol of a zodiac sign and thus a reincarnation of the forges from the Destiny 2 expansion “Curse of Osiris”.
This means that a weapon can be forged for each zodiac sign.
What is your theory regarding the released teaser? How could the story around the Black Armory look like?
